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Musk, Dutton efficiency.

Dutton’s enthusiasm for DOGE is just old tricks with a new name

Elon Musk says he can make the American government great again with deep spending cuts. It’s a lesson that could end in trouble for Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

  • Shane Wright

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MPs’ entitlements

The secret entitlement NSW MPs can spend any way they choose

Depending on where their electorate is, politicians are entitled to an allowance ranging from $70,000 a year to $200,000. No one monitors how it is spent.

  • Alexandra Smith
Nurses protest outside NSW parliament in Sydney on Wednesday, their third strike in as many months.

Nurses took to the streets after ‘insulting’ pay offer. Next stop, court

About 700 surgeries were postponed on Wednesday as nurses and midwives hit the streets for the third time in as many months.

  • Angus Thomson, Max Maddison and Matt O'Sullivan
Police have been offered a massive pay deal after 14 months of negotiations.

NSW Police have been offered a massive pay rise. Some will take home nearly 40 per cent more

Officers have been urged to accept the “generational” wage deal, which promises between 22.3 and 39.4 per cent over four years.

  • Max Maddison
Port Douglas - the perfect place for a passport conference.

Passport office blew $135,000 on cancelled Port Douglas conference

Officials from Australia’s passport office are under investigation after a damning report said it had mishandled hundreds of millions, including huge blowouts on a contract proposed over a coffee.

  • Shane Wright and Olivia Ireland
Service NSW, the agency set up by the Coalition as a one-stop shop for government services is facing hundreds of job cuts

‘Shortsighted’: NSW government blasted as hundreds of jobs cut

The agency set up by the former Coalition government in 2013 as a one-stop shop for government services has some 360 jobs earmarked for cuts.

  • Michael McGowan
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Former senior public servant Renee Leon.

Robo-debt target says Morrison government sacked her after raising alarm

Renee Leon’s intervention means both she and her predecessor as head of the Human Services Department have rejected the public service watchdog’s findings.

  • Paul Sakkal
Former Department of Human Services secretary Kathryn Campbell.

‘Furious tirade’: Shorten slams robo-debt public servant’s claims she was a ‘scapegoat’

Former top public servant Kathryn Campbell says she was set up to take the blame for the robo-debt crisis.

  • Olivia Ireland
Former Department of Human Services secretary Kathryn Campbell.

Final robo-debt probe to keep names unnamed – again

The Australian Public Service Commissioner has apologised for the robo-debt disgrace – but 10 of 12 public servants responsible remain unnamed.

  • Paul Sakkal
Prime Minister and former transport minister Anthony Albanese has been criticised for being too close to Australia’s biggest airline, Qantas.

Qantas’ lions share of taxpayer-funded flights under the microscope

The government’s aviation white paper will review why more than 80 per cent of government bookings are made with one airline.

  • Amelia McGuire

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